Palette.



1 UNITED STATES" PATENT OFFICE.

WILLI M A. ,suss-MILoII, OF ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS.

PALETTE.

SPEGIFICAITMION forming part of Letters Patent No. 716,140, dated December 16, 1902.

Application filed June 5, 1902. Serial No. 110,261- (No model.)

To all whom/it may concern.-

Be it known thatI, WILLIAM A. SUssMILcH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Rockford, in the county of Winnebago and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Palettes,of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a palette with markings to indicate the location thumb-opening2 has acircular outline bound-L ed by the six curved sides 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, andSq Adjacent to the curved sides 3, 5, and 7 are located pigment-containing tubes 9, 10,]and] 11, each held in place by elastic bands '12,

passing through openings in the palette and secured to the under face of the palette.

A pigment-containing tube 13 is held in place by the elastic bands 14 in the same manner that the other tubes are held.

By means of the six-sided figure the location of the three prime colors and the three principal hues are indicated.

In securing the pigment-containing tubes to the paletteand arranging them so that the pigment will be discharged at the proper placefthe tube is always at the place desired 3 5 and errors and annoyances resulting from carelessly-arranged pigments cannot happen.

-In arranging for a painting pigments are chosen representative of the three prime colors, andthe tubes containing'them are placed 40 under the elastic bands.

The tube 13 is designed to hold white pigment and is located in the upper right-hand corner of the palette.

I claim as my invention- 1. A palette having pigmentcontaining tubes located on its face and bands encircling thetubes and holding them in position.

2. A palette having pigment-containing tubes located on its face and elastic bands encircling the tubes and holding them in pot em v 3. A palette having pigment-containing tubes located on its face, openings through the palette and bands encircling the tubes and passing through the openings.

WILLIAM A. SUSSMILCH.

Witnesses:

' A. O. BEHEL,

BEHEL. 

